[vortex] Re: 3Ware controller S2468 and 3Com 3c982

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Claude Pignol wrote:

> Marcel de Riedmatten has suggested to change the latency value of 3c982
> using setpci. It changes the value (80 for eth0 can be change to 72 )
> but the min or max latency doesn't change. It seems that setpci can not
> change these registers. Anyway changing to 72 or a lower value doesn't
> fix the problem.

My knowledge in this area is limited, but I think that what you want is to 
lower the latency for 3Ware so that it doesn't keep the bus busy for so 
long.

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